Lets begin with a topic that has already cost some of my friends quite a lot of money this year: Misconception #1: Reserved List cards never drop in price, so if I dont buy whatever I need now, Ill never be able to afford these stupid cards. This is a common misconception, and I think it results from a confluence of fairly benign effects: 1) With few exceptions, all Reserved List cards are more expensive today than they were a year ago
In a vacuum Visionary is slightly better but the others are a more useful aid in assisting land ratios making it occasionally more desirable on that front
Plague Nurse: easy to underestimate just how potent this is
Then at your end step, you sacrifice the token unless you can pay energy equal to its mana value
That often looks like a Lorehold gravebreak deck, but dont underestimate this alongside cards like Six and Icetill Explorer that let you play cards from the graveyard
Final Thoughts Today's column is just the first of five Top Ten lists of Ravnica Allegiance cards that will be coming out this week
